"I came to understand the value of education, not just to enable me to make a good living, but to enable me to make a worthwhile life."

-- Ruth Simmons

#Worthwhile Quotes #Value Of Education Quotes #Values Quotes

“The quivering flesh, though torture-torn, may live, but souls, once deeply wounded, heal no more.”

Source : Ebenezer Elliott, Edwin Elliott “The Poetical Works”, Georg Olms Verlag
“Lionel Messi? When I played against him at Sevilla it was always very difficult, so now I'm pleased that we're on the same side. He's just fantastic.”
“We have lived our lives by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption, that what is good for the world will be good for us. And that requires that we make the effort to know the world and learn what is good for it.”
“Fear is the brother of hate.”

Source : "Ringworld". Book by Larry Niven, 1970.
“[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up,”
“When I was old enough, I was 21 years of age, I decided to come to America. I did it illegally, so I jumped the border. I didn't speak any English.”
“In order to understand the dance one must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness one must dance.”
“Sometimes I lie awake at night and ask why me? Then a voice answers nothing personal, your name just happened to come up.”

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